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Fighting Poverty With Direct Cash Payments
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
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An MIT professor's rare disease quest ripples throughout biotech
"We all want to have impact. But very few economists are able to do anything that would actually affect patient lives."
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Startup Lets Doctors Classify Skin Conditions With the Snap of a Picture
Piction Health, founded by Susan Conover, SDM ’15, uses machine learning to help physicians identify and manage skin disease.
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The Hub of the Local Robotics Industry
MassRobotics, a nonprofit founded by several MIT alumni, is advancing an industry that will play an increasingly important role in our lives.
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Solar-Powered Desalination Device Wins MIT $100K Competition
Nona Desalination is developing a compact water-desalination device that requires less electricity than a cell phone charger.
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Multiplying the MIT $100K's Impact
The MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition has inspired students to bring the model to regions across the globe.
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Immigrants act more as job creators than job takers
Pierre Azoulay...said he and his co-authors had a "data window into entrepreneurship" that hadn't previously been available to researchers.
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"...relief checks were distributed very broadly...to communities of color and that has been associated with this spur of new business formation.”
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Diversify the image of corporate leadership to include Asian American women
“...it is important to note that there are many different leadership capabilities that organizations also need to foster and reward.”
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The rise of TikTok entrepreneurs: How useful is their business advice?
“From the start, entrepreneurs need to focus on the value they can create for a very specific group of target customers."